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Critical essays on the transnational Kashmiri-American poet.
Featuring essays by American, Indian, and British scholars, this collection offers critical appraisals and personal reflections on the life and work of the transnational poet Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001). Though sometimes identified as an "Indian writer in English," Shahid came to designate himself as a Kashmiri-American writer in exile in the United States, where he lived for the latter half of his life, publishing seven volumes of poetry and teaching at colleges and universities across the country. Locating Shahid in a diasporic space of exile, the volume traces the poet's transnationalist attempts to bridge East and West and his movement toward a true internationalism. In addition to offering close formal analyses of most of Shahid's poems and poetry collections, the contributors also situate him in relation to both Western and subcontinental poetic forms, particularly the ghazal. Many also offer personal anecdotes that convey the milieu in which the poet lived and wrote, as well as his personal preoccupations. The book concludes with the poet's 1997 interview with Suvir Kaul, which appears in print here for the first time.
Contents
Preface
Agha Shahid Ali: A Chronology
Abbreviations
Introduction
Tapan Kumar Ghosh and Sisir Kumar Chatterjee
1. Ghazal for Open Hands
Martin Espada
2. Shahid, Some Memories
Peter Balakian
3. Somewhere without Me My Life Begins
Dara Wier
4. Beloved Witness, Beloved Friend
Maureen Nolan
5. Agha Shahid Ali: Notes and Anecdotes on the Growth of the Poet
Fatima Noori
6. "Separation's Geography": Agha Shahid Ali's Scholarship of Evanescence
Amy Newman
7. Agha Shahid Ali and the Ghazals in English
Sagaree Sengupta
8. "I will open the waves": Examining the Hybrid Forms in Agha Shahid Ali's Poetry
Abin Chakraborty
9. Out of Focus: Agha Shahid Ali's Queer Optics
Gayatri Gopinath
10. Beginnings: A Journey with Micronarratives
Amzed Hossein
11. Braiding Disparate Strands: Tracing the Arcs of Agha Shahid Ali's The Half-Inch Himalayas
Jason A. Schneiderman
12. Dialing a Joke: Agha Shahid Ali's Long-Distance Calls to Lands without a Post Office
Vedatrayee Banerjee
13. Archiving Absences: Charting Chronotopes in Agha Shahid Ali's Cartography of Desire
Deeptesh Sen
14. Tradition, Home, and Exile in Agha Shahid Ali'sThe Beloved Witness
Christine Kitano
15. "It Is This": Agha Shahid Ali's Representation of Kashmir in The Country without a Post Office
Claire Chambers
16. Epistemology of Mourning: A Reading of Rooms Are Never Finished
Sisir Kumar Chatterjee and Sinchan Chatterjee
17 Let Your Mirrored Convexities Multiply: On Agha Shahid Ali's "Tonight"
Kazim Ali
18. An Interview with Agha Shahid Ali
Suvir Kaul
Bibliography
About the Editors
About the Contributors
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